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- Course name
- ART 366
- Institution
- Fort Lewis College
- Instructor
- Rosalinda Linares
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Art History
- Course dates
- 2021-01-29 00:00:00 UTC – 2021-05-07 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 18
During this project, you will be participating in the Art+Feminism campaign (artandfeminism.org), which aims to improve coverage of cis and transgender women, non-binary folks, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia.
You will meet with GSS Librarian Rosalinda Linares on Zoom for two library sessions. In the first online library session, you will learn more about editing Wikipedia from a feminist perspective and develop sound research strategies for finding, evaluating, and using biographical sources. In the second online library session, you will edit the Wikipedia articles of the artist you have chosen based on individual research you've done on a particular cis or transgender woman and/or gender/sexual minority artist of your choice.
Your final assignment for this project will be the following:
Add at least 3 sentences to your assigned article, and cite each statement to a reliable source (it can be the same source for all three sentences). Add at least 2 additional citations to existing statements in your assigned article
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 February 2021 | Thursday, 4 February 2021
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 February 2021 | Thursday, 11 February 2021
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 16 February 2021 | Thursday, 18 February 2021
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 23 February 2021 | Thursday, 25 February 2021
- Assignment - Choose your Wikipedia article
- Pick an artist
- Go to the Choose Your Article tab under Library Resources in Canvas and complete the Wikipedia pre-assignment. You will be asked to provide the following:
- Your name
- Your Wikipedia username
- Your Wikipedia article title & url
- A short statement on why you chose your article, and what you want to edit or change and why
- In class - Article Resources
Looking for article ideas? Check out these links for more information:
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 2 March 2021 | Thursday, 4 March 2021
- In class - Library Session 1 (2/23)
- Get started on Wikipedia
In our first library session on Tuesday, February 23rd, we will cover the following:
- Review the three training modules and connect to your article through the course dashboard
- Practice evaluating a Wikipedia article
- Learn how to find biographical resources on your topic
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Tuesday, 9 March 2021
- Milestones
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts. Look at the Library Resources tab in Canvas for links to resources for your artists and citation help.
- Guide(s) for writing articles in your topic area
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
- Assignment - Draft of sentences and citations ready by 3/9
Continue to expand and improve your work, and by the beginning of our library session on 3/9, you will have a draft of your sentence contributions and the citations you will be using in your article. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
Week 7
- In class - Library Session 2 (3/9)
- Add to an article!
Come to Zoom on Tuesday, March 9th prepared to complete the following assignment:
- Add at least 3 sentences to your assigned article, and cite each statement to a reliable source
- Add at least 2 additional citatoins to existing statements in your assigned article
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.